New Jersey man who called for sheriff's murder appears in court

Richard Golden, the New Jersey man who urged people in an extremist chat room to put a bullet in Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood's head, appeared before a judge at the jail Tuesday afternoon.

Golden, 38, of Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, was brought to Volusia County on Monday.

Charged with second-degree felony written threats to kill or do bodily injury, Golden was ordered held on $100,000 bail.

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit, Golden did not say a word as he stood before the judge and only nodded when County Judge Robert Sanders called out his name and read the charge.

According to investigators from various agencies that included the South Brunswick Police Department, the FBI, the Seventh Judicial Circuit's State Attorney's Office, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, and the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange, Golden called on white supremacists and hate groups to murder Chitwood.

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Golden made the threat after Chitwood denounced a white supremacist group, the Goyim Defense League, for spreading fear and antisemitic hate literature about the Jewish community in Volusia County.

"Just shoot Chitwood in the head and he stops being a problem," Golden wrote in the chat room, according to the sheriff. "They have to find a new guy to be the problem. But shooting Chitwood in the head solves an immediate problem permanently. Just shoot Chitwood in the head and murder him."

Golden is anti-police, antigovernment, unemployed, and lived in a back bedroom at his mother's New Jersey home, investigators said.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: White supremacist sympathizer who wanted sheriff murdered jailed